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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to three people in Manhattan in 1926, according to the description in this chapter?

2. What was found on the lungs of all of the children who complained of feeling sick?

3. What was the color of Turner's skin, according to his doctor? ________ orange.

4. The diagnosis for Hoffman was a __________ intrusion with concurrent infection, according to doctors.

5. What is the only type of animal that carried the rabies virus, according to scientists at the time?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Donald Hoffman went to his doctor, what was the doctor's diagnosis when he saw the itchy sore?

2. Why did Elmo Turner decide that he needed to visit his doctor in order to get treatment?

3. What did doctors discover about American bats in the course of their trying to treat the woman who seemed to have rabies?

4. What was the final cause for the trichinosis determined to be? What was the source of the infection?

5. What happens when it is found out that a person is a carrier of typhoid fever, even if they don't have any symptoms?

6. How does a person contract anthrax if they come across it in the world?

7. What were the two things that were learned by the health department when a misdiagnosis was suspected in the case of the elderly men?

8. What were the different diagnoses that the woman who went into the Dallas hospital had when she began her treatment?

9. What did the local public health official find out about the health of the students who were impacted by the infection?

10. What was the strange sensation the 'essentially normal' woman began to experience, leading to discomfort?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using cheap feed from another farmer leads to the mercury poisoning of the family and of many hogs.

Part 1: Why do you think people use feed that might not be safe for their animals?

Part 2: Do you think the best quality food should always be used for animals?

Part 3: How do you think the government could help farmers always use the best feed for their animals?

Essay Topic 2

The cause of the blueness in the men was determined to be an accidental poisoning in the food.

Part 1: Do you think poisoning happens a lot in the foods you eat?

Part 2: How do you think the poisoning could have been avoided?

Part 3: Why do you think the restaurant didn't realize that it had made a mistake?

Essay Topic 3

J.C. Penney refused to take the box of jeans that was damaged and later found out to be poisonous.

Part 1: Do you think J.C. Penney should have done more to prevent those jeans from being sold?

Part 2: What is a store's responsibility to the seller of a certain box of merchandise?

Part 3: Why do you think the delivery person who presented the box didn't think to return the box to the supplier?

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